Jennifer Young

Jennifer Young is a listed artist who lives and works in Ashland, Virginia. She creates vibrant landscape oil paintings of the American south and of various scenes throughout Europe. She received her formal training in painting and art history at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. During college and after graduation, her focus was largely centered on exploring the human figure.

Through the years her work has evolved to focus mainly on the traditional/impressionist landscape and plein air painting.

BFA, cum laude in Art History (studio track), Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, 1994


Jennifer has also studied with a number of notable contemporary painters including Kevin MacPherson, Kenn Backhaus, Robert Liberace, John Budicin, and Matt Smith

June 2017: Jennifer was awarded a two-week artist's residency in Vinalhaven, ME
June 2017: Featured artist at Cabell Gallery, Lexington, VA
August 2015 - 2017 Ongoing exhibitions at Gallery Flux, Ashland, VA and City Art Gallery, Greenville, NC.
June 2015: Featured artist and demo at the Little Gallery on Smith Mountain Lake, Moneta, VA.
March 2015: Jennifer's painting "Winter Sunset, North Run Creek", was selected as part of the FAV15% (jury's favorite 15% of the entries) in the March 2015 FASO/Fine Art Views BoldBrush Painting competition.
July 2014: Jennifer's plein air paintings were featured in Plein Air Magazine's EZine OutdoorPainter.com.
May 2013: Featured artist at Design Domaine Gallery in Bernardsville, NJ.
April- June 2013: Featured artist at the H. Scott November Gallery at Westminster Canterbury, Richmond, VA.
February 2013: Jennifer was commissioned to paint 7 original paintings for author Frances Mayes' Tuscan Sun Wines new line of wine labels.
Spring 2011: Jennifer was spotlighted in the May/June issue of Southern Lady Magazine, a lifestyle magazine of gracious living distributed in the US and Canada by Hoffman Media.
November 2009: Holiday small works invitational, Miller Gallery in Cincinnati, OH.
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